Flow

This essay explores how The Guild can be considered a community of play.

An examination of consumption, gender, and class dynamics in made-for-TV holiday movies.

A discussion of the complicated gender politics of the new GoldiBlox “action figure” and its marketing campaign.

A discussion of online privacy and photo sharing in the aftermath of the Snapchat hack.

A consideration of how satire TV in the Obama era has come to embody and channel a “comedy of exasperation.”

An analysis of the feminist memetics of Binders Full of Women.

Assessing the status of media regulation in the United States from pop culture understandings to FCC proceedings.

An examination of both the depiction of Arabs in FX’s Tyrant and the moral position of academics to critique such depictions in the first place.

Melinda Barlow paints a picture of Toronto’s past, present, and future referencing a variety of films and artists to create a visual journey through the city.